Improvement in hoes



NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

STEPHENGREEN, OF LEBANON, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO BARNA T:

STOWELL, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOES.

Specification form ing part of Letters Patent N0. 158,373, dated January 5, 1875; application filed November 30, 1874.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN GREEN, of Lebanon, county of Laelede and State of Missouri, have invented eertain Improvements in Hoes.

The following deserption, taken in connect0n With the aeeompanying platte of drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specifieaton, Wherein are set forth the nature end prineiples of the nvention, by Whieh the same may be dstinguished. fron1 others of a similztr class, together wth sueh parts thereof as are elairned as new and are desired to be se cured by Letters Patent of the United. Start-es.

My invention relates to that elass of agricultural implements culled hoes; and the nature thereot' eonsists in a cert-ain novel combi nation of the parts of the same, as hereinat'ter shown and deseribed.

In the accompanying plate of druwings, in whieh corresponding parts are designated by the same lettere Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hoe. Fig. 2 is a side view of the Same.

l) designates the widest euttingedge; 0, the narrow cuttingedge. 'lhe sides of the lower blade B are slightly inelined from the perpendieular. 'lhe sides of the upper blade 0 are inelined 2it about the same ungle. The upper and lower blacles are conneeted by a central. seetion, D, the sides of whch are inelined from the perpendicular et en angle of nearly 'lhe shank H of the he consists of the part h which is perpendieular to the plane of the' lower blade, and the part h, which, by means of the eurvlinear section L3, may have any required angle With the part h The part h is united 130 the center of the eentral section D by passing the end M through en aperture eut through the thiekest part of the blade, and riveting it thereto. The said part 71 is provided with a shoulder, N, whieh fits ngainst the inner side of the hoe, end serves t0 held. it firm1y in pla-ee.

I claim and desire t0 secure by Letters Patent The h0e herein deseribed, consisting of an angular blade, as sh0wn, and a goose-neek tang atteched at right angles t0 said blade by & collar a.nd rivet, as specified.

In testmony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand ths 12th day of September, 1874.

STEPHEN GREEN.

Witnesses:

GrEO. H. GREENLEAF, W. I. WALLAOE. 

